White Rage:
what you get when bad actors working for oligarchs convince a bunch of disadvantaged people that another disadvantaged group of people is responsible for their situation, rather than the oligarchs siphoning up all wealth, & keeping wage slaves from upward mobility.
It's finding a scapegoat that distracts from the consolidation of wealth as the ultimate cause of a lack of social mobility, to protect the status quo for the bajillionaire class.
And for many at the capitol, their participation was performative, not true 'white rage.'

These business owners, those who flew in on private jets, those funded by Mike Lindell - they WERE the agents of the oligarchs. The brand ambassadors, per se.
White Rage is what happens when aspirational politics meets reality.

Or, rather, White Rage is what happens when 30 years of aspirational politics meets the results of 30 years of aspirational politics.

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Maybe it's time for legislatures to consider passing laws that have jurisdiction based on population density?

AR-15s should be illegal to possess anywhere there is a population density > n / 550m, where n is the number of individuals with control over use of the weapon...
iow, if a group is out hunting or target shooting, members of that group willingly place themselves within range of the weapon.

IOW, weapons possession should be a consent-based arrangement, and no one should be in range of a weapon without consent.
that would mean you can possess weapons for self-defense in urban areas, but not weapons designed for mass casualties.

that would mean individual municipalities could define their own consent structures, but not foist them upon other municipalities.
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Yorkvile is about to go through some.... things.
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I think that every citizen should be able to book a 15 minute conversation directly with their congressional representative at least once a term.

Reps shouldn't have more constituents than they can meet with personally.
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10 min appointments over 2 years ~ 24,000 constituents.

Originally, the number was set 1:30,000.

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